Vacuum-electrode for therapeutic purposes.



Patented July 4, I899.

( Application med Oct. 15, 1898.)

No Model.)

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WlTNESSES:

ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATn r FB -CE nanny GIBSON oNmLLQor' nnw'ronit, N.2Y., AssiGNon orunvnnrri-i'inn THIRTY-SECONDS TO JOHN ROONEY, or S-AME PLACE, AND ALEX.'\NDER armors, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA- VACUUM-ELECTRODE FOR, TH ERAPEUTiC Pu RP osE s.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 628,352, dated July 4, 1899.

Application filed October 15, 1898. Serial No. 695M582. We model.)

To all whom, it may concern.- Be it known that LHENRY GIBSON ONEILL, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Vacuum Electrodes for Therapeutic Purposes; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, to such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

' This invention appertains to the art of electrotherapy, and is designed, mainly, to afiord a simple and effective means for producing electrical asepsis and stimulation withoutany of the unpleasant physiological efi'ects incident to the use of electricity for therapeutic purposes. The principle involved in this system of electrical asepsis and stimulation is the production of nascent ozone surrounding 2 5 and within the diseased surface, thereby oxidizing the micro organisms or other toxic matter present, while stimulating healthy granulation by molecular bombardment.

The process'consists in directing high-tension currents of electricity through a unipolar vacuum-electrode of glass or other vitreous material against the affected parts, thereby decomposing not only the air surrounding but occluded within the same, resolving the molecules of oxygen into their atoms and reconstructing them into a new group represent-ed by 0 (ozone) Ozone in this nascent form is very much more energetic than in a free state and produces instant oxidation of .0 all diseased matter. This form of ascpsis is applicable to the entire tract of a wound or diseased surface atany depth. It is fatal to all germ life and affords a means of internal asepsis for which there can be no substitute in the very nature of things.

.form where the nose is involved.

The manner of carrying out this system is through an electrode of glass, having an interior vacuum and one pole in connection with a source of high-tension currents of electricity.

The specific form of electrode or instrument will vary according to the organinvolved or part affected- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 illustrates one form adapted generally to treatment of a wound or diseased surface on the body; Fig. 2, a form for treating catarrh or other forms of diseases of the ear; Fig. 3, a form for certain eye diseases, and Fig. 4 a

While all nccessaril y vary in form, they embody the same essentials. They areiueach case made of glass. The contact-surface of each is characteristic of its function. In each case this contact-surface is exterior of a vacuum.

In the drawings, A designates a vacuumchamber, and A' a sealed-in terminal entering the chamber A.

A is the contactsurface, and A is any suitable non-conducting handle. I prefer to have it either of solid glass or of glass filled with air.

The one pole or terminal A is connected with a source of high-tension current. The electrode is then brought near or in contact with the diseased surface. The current entering the vacuum-chamber is, attenuated, and impelled by its potential passes through the contact-wall of. glass to the person so 8osoftened in its action as to be unfclt, while it produces gascentozone in situ, and stimulates healthy action and the reparativcprocesses.

Any current of suiliciently high tension will suilice. I prefer, however, to employ a current having a wave approaching as nearly as possible to the sine curve.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is--- 1. A unipolar electrode of glass or other 0 stimulation which consists oil an electrode of glass having a non-conducting handle; a con metsurface exterior of a vacuum-chamber,

and one pole connected witha source of highin tension energy, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix mysignature in presence oitwo witnesses.

v HENRY GIBSON ONEILL; Witnfises:

G. M. ANDERSON, Gno. II. PARMELEE 

